conservation of parity

conservation of parity

[‚kän·sər′vā·shən əv ′par·əd·ē]

(quantum mechanics)

The law that, if the wave function describing the initial state of a system has even (odd) parity, the wave function describing the final state has even (odd) parity; it is violated by the weak interactions. Also known as parity conservation.

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